Gomoda (mountain of Plaksha Dvīpa)

Gomoda

Gomoda is a mountain of Plaksha-dvīpa, the second of the seven dvīpas of the earth. It is the first of the seven varsha mountains of that dvīpa.

In Plaksha-dvīpa

Lomaharshaṇa, describing the dvīpas to the munis, tells that Plaksha-dvīpa is twice the extent of Jambūdvīpa. Its lord is Medhātithi, whose seven sons ruled it: Śāntamaya the eldest, Śiśira, Sukhodaya, Ānanda, Śiva, Kshemaka and Dhruva. By their names there are seven boundary mountains, and there are seven more varsha mountains: Gomoda, Candra, Nārada, Dundubhi, Somaka, Sumanas and Vaibhrāja. In these lovely mountains and varshas the people live together with devas and gandharvas. The lands are pure and full of vigour, and the people, without mental pain or illness, are happy at all times.

Its seven rivers, all flowing to the sea, are the Anutaptā, Śikhā, Vipāśā, Tridivā, Kramu, Amṛtā and Sukṛtā; they take away pāpas the moment one hears their names. There is no yuga system there: time always runs as in the Tretā yuga, and people live five thousand years, free of disease. The four varṇas are the Āryakas, Kurus, Vivilvas and Bhāvins. A plaksha tree as great as the jambū of Jambūdvīpa stands in the middle of the dvīpa and gives it its name, and there Hari, the maker of the world, the Īśvara of all, is worshipped in the form of Soma. The dvīpa is surrounded by the ocean of sugar-cane juice.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20